Last week, Google released locations and pictures of their eight data centers, which until now, have been kept a secret. It would appear that for a company, whose original mission statement was to ‘organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful’, they go to great lengths to ensure that only the right information is publically available. Some examples of this include:

They have been known to remove light bulbs when using third party data centers, whilst they install equipment

They don’t display their logo

At the third party facilities like equinix they have hand print recognition just to access the server floor complete CCTV coverage

They even have ‘Stormtroopers’ guarding server floors

Google Server Farm Video – This is a video, from the Daily Mail website, that gives a virtual tour of a Google Server Farm.

Are these measures so extreme they become ridiculous? Or are they necessary to ensure that all personal information is protected? Google have a responsibility to protect personal information and these pictures showing the lengths to which they are prepared to go, provide users with clarification that they are a company to be trusted. This can only be a positive thing.

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